November 2017

Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on November 30, 2017?

Don't miss the opportunities that only New York provides! Exciting, high quality, unique and off the beaten path free events and free things to do take place in New York each day of the year, any time of the day: whether it's a weekday or a weekend, day or night, morning or evening or afternoon, December or July, April or November! These events will take your breath away! 65 free events take place on November 30 in New York City.

New York City (NYC) never ceases to amaze you with quantity and quality of its free culture and free entertainment. Check out November 30 and see for yourself. Summer or Winter, Spring or Fall! Just click on any day of the calendar above and you'll find most inspiring and entertaining free events to go to and free things to do on each day of November . Don't miss the opportunities that only New York provides!

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Here is what we find especially interesting on the free events scene in the month of June: New York Philharmonics Concerts in the Parks, Metropolitran Opera Recitals, Make Music New York Day which always takes place on June 21st, Washington Square Music festival on Tuesday nights.

Some events take place all year long: same day of the week, same time there are there for you to take advantage of. One of the oldest free weekly events in Manhattan is Dixieland Jazz with the Gotham Jazzmen, which happen at noon every Tuesday. Another one is Federal Reserve Bank Tour, which takes place every week day at 1 pm.

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The 3-hour walking and subway tour covers the Financial District including Wall Street and the World Trade Center, SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown. These are neighborhoods that simply can’t be fully appreciated from a bus. There will be one or two opportunities to sample tasty treats.

This is a 3-hour tour that begins with a walk over the Brooklyn Bridge, an icon of New York City for over 125 years, with spectacular views of Manhattan and Brooklyn. The tour then moves on to a stroll of Brooklyn Heights, America’s and New York City’s first suburb. The tour then explores the neighborhood DUMBO before ending at the Fulton Ferry landing.

This tour focuses on the middle of Central Park, starting in front of the beautiful American Museum of Natural History. From there enter the park and explore, seeing everything from a castle to the wild-looking Ramble. See an Ancient Egyptian obelisk and the place where Stuart Little raced his sailboat in the E.B. White children’s classic. Don’t forget to bring along your camera. There will be many wonderful photo opportunities throughout.

You've seen the iconic skyscrapers, attended a Broadway show, visited Lady Liberty and relaxed in Central Park. Looking for a little more of the Big Apple? Maybe it's time to visit some of Manhattan's oldest and most enchanting historic districts. Take a relaxing stroll through SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown.

Although world famous, Harlem may be New York's best kept secret with some of the city's best architecture, food, music and people. Harlem's history is also one of the city's most dramatic, having gone through many ethnic, cultural and socioeconomic changes over the past roughly 400 years, which have resulted in a diverse array of places of worship, theaters, homes and eating establishments.

Street art is visual art created in public locations, usually unsanctioned artwork executed outside of the context of traditional art venues. The term gained popularity during the graffiti art boom of the early 1980s and continues to be applied to subsequent incarnations. Stencil graffiti, wheat pasted poster art or sticker art, and street installation or sculpture are common forms of modern street art.

A multi-neighborhood tour of the Lower Manhattan area. The tour begins on Wall Street, where you will see the New York Stock Exchange and Trinity Church before moving on the the World Trade Center and City Hall. We then move on by subway to visit the largest Chinatown in the United States. Following Chinatown, the tour will continue on through Little Italy and on to SoHo.

Time to learn about the other New York City; the city that nurtured political, cultural and intellectual revolutions. The city that gave birth to punk rock, the beat poets and graffiti. The city that has survived two centuries of mass riots, crime and corruption, murder and mayhem. The city that has flourished in spite of economic and social hardship.

This collective biography recounts the hopes, experiences, and grave disappointments of US women who campaigned for “Russian freedom”; who saved sickly, starving children from the Russian famine; who worked on rural communes in Siberia or wrote for Moscow newspapers; and who performed on Soviet stages. It recalls US women who survived the Great Terror and who celebrated their Soviet counterparts during the war. And, in light of both the Cold War and our current moment, it demands we come to terms with their legacy.

Learn about central banking functions that Federal Reserve System performs and see Bank's vault of international monetary gold on bedrock of Manhattan Island, five stories below street level. Learn why Federal Reserve has "Federal" in its name, while it's a private bank, not Federal at all. Tour times: 1:00pm, 2:00pm. This tour takes place Mondays through Fridays, except bank holidays.

“Beasley, the one-time keyboardist for Freddie Hubbard and Miles Davis, reflects a variety of generational influences, incorporating the emphatic chordal clusters of Herbie Hancock, the rhythmic quirkiness of Monk and the lush intelligence of Art Tatum into a highly refined personal voice.” – LA Times

Take a mid-day pause to refresh your mind and re-establish your center in the midst of bustling city life. Meditation is a powerful tool to eliminate stress, to heal the body, mind, and brain, and to enhance your personal well-being and positive relationship with the world.

Share your passion for gaming the old-fashioned way. If words excite or inspire you, and crossword puzzles keep you going, then Scrabble is your game! Are you a chess or checkers champion? Whether you're a master or just starting out, show off your best moves. If you like wheeling and dealing, Monopoly's the game for you. Join them for some lively board time. All levels of play welcome. Please feel free to bring your own game set, and friends.

This recital of works of JS. Bach, Guiseppe Maria Dall'Abaco includes Loretta O’Sullivan’s own transcription of the Biber Passacaglia, allowing the audience to experience the resonant, meditative, and intimate quality of solo cello. Loretta O'Sullivan, cellist with the Four Nations Ensemble, serves as principal cellist with Opera Lafayette and the Bach Choir of Bethlehem. Her work as soloist, chamber player, and continuo cellist can be heard on numerous recordings. As soloist, she's performed the Bach Suites, Ricercari of Gabrielli and Caprices of Dall'Abaco. www.loscello.com

You've seen the iconic skyscrapers, attended a Broadway show, visited Lady Liberty and relaxed in Central Park. Looking for a little more of the Big Apple? Maybe it's time to visit some of Manhattan's oldest and most enchanting historic districts. Take a relaxing stroll through SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown.

Stars: Rex Harrison, Constance Cummings, Kay Hammond. Charles and his second wife, Ruth, are haunted by the spirit of his first wife, Elvira. Medium Madame Arcati tries to help things out by contacting the ghost. 96 min.

Stars: Kate Mara, Ramon Rodriguez, Tom Felton. Based on the true life story of a young Marine corporal whose unique discipline and bond with her military combat dog saved many lives during their deployment in Iraq. 116 min.

Cynthia Hoffmann is a member of the voice faculties of Manhattan School of Music, where she also teaches a class in Vocal Performance, and of the Juilliard School, where she served as Chair from 1995 to 2006. She has been an adjunct voice faculty member of the Curtis Institute of Music and from 1984 to 1992 directed the Judith Raskin Opera Class at the 92nd Street Y School of Music.

A screening of segments from the Emmy Award-winning PBS NewsHour series, "The End of AIDS?" Followed by a panel discussion moderated by Wafaa El-Sadr, global director of ICAP and featuring William Brangham, PBS NewsHour correspondent; Demetre Daskalakis, NYC deputy commissioner for the Division of Disease Control (TBC) David Hoos, project director, Population-based HIV Impact Assessment Project (PHIA); and others. Refreshments will be served.

Borrowing its title from this summer's probing popular NPR series, "There Goes the Neighborhood," this presentation will illuminate the human, socioeconomic, political, and cultural effects of the process of gentrification.

A panel discussion with Daniel Drezner, Professor of International Politics, The Fletcher School, Tufts University, about his new book, The Ideas Industry: How Pessimists, Partisans, and Plutocrats are Transforming the Marketplace of Ideas. Discussants: Stephen Sestanovich and Alexandra Vacroux. Chairs: Alexander Cooley and Joshua Tucker.

Celebrate the season at the 21st Annual Holiday Lighting in Central Park. Meet Santa and friends, watch a live ice carving demonstration, sing carols on the Plaza, and warm up with hot cocoa and cookies. The event concludes with lighting a flotilla of trees on the Harlem Meer. Schedule of Events: 5:30 pm – 6:00 pm Photos with Santa (please bring your own camera) 6:00 pm – 6:30 pm Caroling and Lighting Ceremony

Brisk but sane. About seven miles.This is the first of what will be a regular series in which explore Central Park by foot as the work week winds down and then grab something to eat afterwards. After quickly entering the park, head North, across and back down again to Central Park South. Aim for about a 3mph pace. Please bring a flashlight as it is getting late earlier this time of year.

The Brazilian contemporary artist's exhibition explores the line between reality and illusion. At first glance, the works appear to be monochromatic photographs of rain, but a second look reveals them to be drawings filled with subtle intricacies. The exhibit challenges traditional representations of nature by using Oliveira's memories, inventiveness, and imaginary landscapes that give the impression of reality.

Enjoy an enchanting Chanukah experience for the whole family. Let There Be Light! Menorahs from the Collection of the Lori and David Moore Family features an arry of menorahs from the collection of the Lori and David Moore family that show just how many ways there are to light up the holiday. Lori and David Moore began buying menorahs as a way to provide their son and daughter with a holiday tradition, mirroring other families’ yearly holiday trips to pick out Christmas trees or special ornaments. Over the years, they collected more than 150 menorahs, many of which will be displayed in the Museum leading up to and during Chanukah, the Jewish Festival of Lights. The collection ranges from the traditional to the very whimsical. Designs include an American flag menorah, which Mr. Moore bought after September 11, 2001; traditional Chanukah lamps from around the world; and menorahs that take playful forms, including a shoe, a dog and an oversized book of matches. A menorah made of mah jongg tiles is a perfect match for our synagogue site, which is located in what is now the heart of Chinatown.

In her new book, Joanna Dee Das argues that Dunham was more than a dancer - she was a feminist intellectual and activist who used dance to fight for racial justice. Dunham saw dance as a tool of liberation, as a way for people of African descent to reclaim their history and forge a new future. Through her performances, through the schools she established in St Louis, Chicago, and New York, and through her diverse network of admirers, including George Balanchine, Eartha Kitt, Marlon Brando, and Alvin Ailey, Dunham changed America.

Drawing from his book, Jordan T. Camp will trace the roots of the carceral crisis through a series of turning points in U.S. history, beginning with the urban uprisings of 1967 and terminating with the current policing crisis. Through an examination of these dramatic events, he will suggest that alternative outcomes have been and continue to be possible.

To the surprise of many political observers, late on Sunday night, November 19, the FDP walked out on talks about forming a coalition government with the CDU/CSU and the Greens. More than two months after the election, Germany is still without a new government - and questions abound. This panel of distinguished experts discusses the ramifications of the failed coalition negotiations and what lies ahead. Will there be snap elections? Will Angela Merkel form a minority government? What does this mean for Europe and for Germany’s role in the world? Why are the Social Democrats so adamantly opposed to joining another grand coalition? Will all of this strengthen the far-right AfD? And, is this the beginning of the end of the Merkel era?

The UFT Players, a professional committee within the United Federation of Teachers, is in its twentieth succesful year of staging a wide variety of original plays, musicals, classic productions, and other creative events. You will enjoy the staged readings of short plays written by UFT members. Please come and support our playwrights. Plays are just blueprints until they are performed. Your attendance will help the authors grow in their craft.

Stars: Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, Lisa Bonet. Harry Angel is a private investigator. He is hired by a man who calls himself Louis Cyphre to track down a singer called Johnny Favorite. But the investigation takes an unexpected and somber turn. 113 min.

A special screening and lively discussion with the filmmaker Eddie Rosenstein, the artictect Evan Wolfson and Senior Vice President for Social Justice, Maya Wiley. About the flim...Evan Wolfson, the architect of same-sex marriage, and his colleagues led a decades long battle to win rights for LGBT people, culminating dramatically at the U.S. Supreme Court. This is the surprising story of the most successful – and perhaps most inspiring – civil rights movement of our time.

From a graffiti artist speaking out against domestic violence in the favelas of Brazil to a dancer rehabilitating sex-trafficking survivors in India, this film follows four women from around the world who use art to empower women and girls. 87 min.

Lois Rakoff, Community Director of the Poe Room, presents local artists and members of the community for an evening of entertainment that will illuminate Poe’s work and legacy through a variety of creative works.

Speaker: Artist manager Dre London has the hottest artist in the world currently, with Post Malone securing four multi-platinum singles, the number #1 debut platinum album in Stoney and executive produced the number one single on the Billboard Hot 100 in “rockstar.”. Other clients on Dre London’s London Ent. roster include actress/singer/songwriter Lexy Panterra, producer Tank God and a few developmental artists that will be releasing content soon.

Hailed by Vanity Fair as "essential reading," Vanishing New York is an unflinching chronicle of gentrification in the twenty-first century and a love letter to lost New York. This book talk will illuminate Jeremiah Moss's studies and draw lines from the past to the present, addressing how we got here, how this history manifests in our present day, and what we can do about it.

David Erdman of Pratt Institute draws upon his experience residing, building, and teaching in Hong Kong for over seven years, to speculate on the positive attributes of densification in contemporary cities, and how concepts related to density could be central to 21st century architectural and urban design practices.

Now in its 16th year, the Mountain Stage NewSong Contest is one of the premier showcases of emerging performers and songwriters in North America. This year’s grand-prize winner will be awarded an EP to be produced and mixed by an industry celebrity and recorded at Echo Mountain Recording Studios in Asheville, North Carolina, as well as future performance opportunities at the Sundance Film Festival and NPR's Mountain Stage. Witness the finals live. The 2016 grand prize winner Wilder Adkins joins for a special performance.

Ben Blum is the author of the forthcoming book, Ranger Games: A Story of Soldiers, Family and an Inexplicable Crime (Doubleday, September 2017). Ann Hood is the author of several books, most recently The Book that Matters Most: A Novel and Morningstar: Growing Up with Books (W. W. Norton, August 2017); she has won a Best American Spiritual Writing Award, the Paul Bowles Prize for Short Fiction, and two Pushcart Prizes.

Celebrate the first American exhibition of the beloved Argentine artist’s iconic black-and-white illustrations that have influenced generations of comic-book artists. The event also celebrates the collected reprinting of Muñoz’ Alack Sinner series (IDW) and Billy Holiday (NBM). José Muñoz was born in Buenos Aires in 1942. He attended the “Escuela Panamericana de Arte” in the same city, where he was a pupil of Alberto Breccia and Hugo Pratt. He studied drawing, painting and sculpture in the atelier of Humberto Cerantonio. He made his debut in comics as an assistant to Francisco Solano Lopez, and then illustrating stories written by Héctor Oesterheld for magazines Hora Cero and Frontera. In the spotlight in 1963 drawing 56 ” Precinto 56″ on Eugenio Zappietro lyrics for the magazine Misterix.

Spanish writer Nuria Amat (Amor y Guerra, 2012) engages in a dialogue about historical memory and identity in Latin America and Spain with essayist and political analyst David Rieff (In Praise of Forgetting: Historical Memory and Its Ironies, 2016).

Dr. Henry Theriault, recently elected as President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, on human rights violations around the world, the state of genocide studies today, genocide prevention, reparations, denial, and more.

New York Ghost tours capture the spiritual side of the Big Apple through stories. famed explorers, native tribes, lost opportunities and political intrigue. With almost every step one takes through the West Village, one encounters the ghosts and spirits of New York City’s past. Every corner has its stories, every building has its haunted spirits.

New York is a skyscraper city and there is no better time to view Manhattan’s icons than after the sun sets and the lights go on. Fueled by competition and a dash of audacity, New York City is still producing one of mankind’s most remarkable skyline. NOTE** THIS TOUR SPENDS MUCH TIME INDOORS OR IN SUBWAYS AND GREAT FOR ALL WEATHER CONDITIONS. Please note they do utilize the subway on this tour so you will need $5 for subway.

PROGRAM: BACH: Chaconne (from D minor Partita) DYENS: Fuoco and Saudades 1&2 SOR: Study in B minor Op. 35, No.22 BACH: Sarabande and Bourree (from B minor Violin Partita) GIULIANI: Grand Overture, Op. 61 BROUWER: Elogió de la Danza VANDERZEE: Animali Animati and Sonata #1 JOHN WILLIAMS: Across The Stars Featuring the guitar students of Michael Newman and Fred Hand, these concerts include performances of works by great masters from the Renaissance, new works by students and faculty, and an eclectic mix of everything in between.

Bodega Cat is a weekly comedy show brought to you by Kevin Seefried (202 Comedy Festival), Andy Ostroff (Jimmy Kimmel Live!), and Dane Hanson (Producer of Laughs on FOX). Live Stand-Up Comedy in New York City.